Desktop Products Support

Weather Alert

Poland, NY 13431

Safe Computing

WeatherBug is a safe and secure desktop application that delivers live local weather
and life saving alerts to millions of people a month. WeatherBug does not have,
and never has had, the capability to track surfing habits or “spy” on
its users.

A desktop application allows you to build a relationship with your audience. All
desktop applications serve a purpose of bringing valuable content to customers,
pushing out pertinent information, and eliminating the time-consuming “search”
aspect of the Web. In this way, people are better able to stay informed of the world
around them.

It is the advertising sponsors that keep WeatherBug free. WeatherBug found a unique
way to make an ad- supported application “relevant” to each user by
allowing them to choose the type of advertising they see every day within the clearly
specified limits of the WeatherBug advertising platform. In addition, an “ad-free”
version of WeatherBug, called WeatherBug Plus, is available to users for only $19.95
a year. For this price, consumers get all the great features of the free application
plus additional premium features in an ad-free environment.

One of the big problems with the term “adware” is the lack of a standard
definition. We believe that the proper definition of adware is any program that
secretly gathers personal information through the Internet and relays it back to
another computer, generally for advertising purposes. This is often accomplished
by tracking information related to Internet browser usage or habits.

WeatherBug is not “Adware.” WeatherBug is incapable of tracking the
trends of its customers' Web use or deciphering anything on customers' local or
hard drives. WeatherBug does not “snoop” on its users, nor does it have
functionality to determine what users were doing, where they were before WeatherBug
was opened or where they go after using WeatherBug.

The frequency of Internet desktop applications has increased dramatically in the
last five years in many categories, including instant messengers, weather applications,
rich media players (e.g., Real Player and Windows Media Player), and so on. Many
of these products are free, supported by advertising, and developed by trusted brands.
Unfortunately, the frequency of Internet properties that are not trustworthy or
forthright in their objectives has also increased in recent years. Because of this,
protecting the rights and privacy of our consumer and business users has become
a top priority at WeatherBug.

We at WeatherBug are scrupulously careful about the inalienable rights of our millions
of consumer and business users, and adhere to the strictest standards relating to
meaningful notice, informed consent and user control. Read our Bill of Rights; it's
the strongest in the industry, by far.

We require any software that is integrated with WeatherBug, including the WeatherBug
Browser Companion powered by My Search, to be spyware- and adware-free, too.

In order to insure that your computer is free from spyware and other problem applications,
we recommend downloading and running a detection program.